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EDUCATIONALLY SUB-NORMAL PUPILS
Number known to the Authority at the end of years- 175
Number ascertained during the year 43
Number in Residential Special Schools 9
Number in Day Special Schools 150
Number in ordinary schools 16
Most of West Ham children who are ascertained as Educationally Sub-normal attend the
Gurney Day Special School. Like other handicapped pupils they receive careful medical
supervision and many have speech therapy. Their mental and emotional development is kept
under review and is specially assessed towards the end of their school life. The following
recommendations were made in respect of the 36 pupils who left the school.
Reported to the Local Health Authority as requiring
supervision after leaving school 15
Reported to the Local Health Authority under Section 57(3)
of the Education Act, 1944 (as incapable of receiving
education In school) 7
Left without special recommendation 6
Left the district 5
Transferred to Residential Special School 2
Admitted to Approved School 1
EPILEPTIC PUPILS
Most epileptic children can be educated in ordinary schools. It Is only when an
epileptic is clearly unable to fit into ordinary school life, often because of mental
retardation or behaviour problems, that he has to be "ascertained" and special education
arranged, usually in a residential school.
Occasionally an epileptic child is placed in the day special school for physically
handicapped pupils.
The number of non-ascertained children known to the Authority is twenty six.
The ascertained are:-
Number known to the Authority 7
Number ascertained during the year 1
Number in Residential Special Schools 6
Number in Day Special School 1
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